Recent Discussions
ANN: Dissertations in German Studies
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CFP: Europe Inside-Out: Europe and Europeanness Exposed to Plural Observers (9th Edition), Dublin, 31st of May – 1st of June 2019
9th Euroacademia International Conference
‘Europe Inside-Out: Europe and Europeanness Exposed to Plural Observers’
CFP: Crossing Over Symposium: Place and Belonging
8th Crossing Over Symposium
Cleveland State University
October 4-5, 2019
Place and Belonging!
*Cultural Borders*Political Borders*Educational Borders*Religious Borders*International Borders*Intranational Borders*Linguistic Borders*Gender Borders*Ideological Borders*Age Borders*Tribal Borders*Social Class Borders*Identity Borders*Neighborhood Borders*
Peace Studies, Conflicts, Encounters, Resolutions, Identity, US-Mexico Border, Mixed Race Studies, Africana/African American Studies, Latino Studies, Jewish and Holocaust Studies, Arab/Muslim World.
CFP: Jewish and Queer Interactions in Central Europe and Mandatory Palestine/Israel (1870-1960) (Deadline: 30th June 2019)
This is a call for papers dealing with the similarities, differences, and entanglements of queer and Jewish migration experiences and their ideological and cultural dimensions, as well as antisemitic and homo-/transphobic narratives of Jewish and/or queer ‘unrootedness’. Accepted papers will be published as a collection of essays after the conference.
CFP: Jewish-Polish-German realms of memory. A triple neighbourhood.
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CFP: Journal für Kultur und Geschichte der Deutschen im östlichen Europa (JKGE) / Journal for Culture and History of the Germans in Eastern Europe
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Call for Submissions: Central Europe: An Undergraduate Yearbook
Central Europe: An Undergraduate Yearbook is currently soliciting submissions for the inaugural issue, which is scheduled to be published in September 2019. Central Europe is an open-access journal promoting the study of Central Europe among undergraduate students. Sponsored by the Center for Austrian Studies at the University of Minnesota, the journal’s online platform provides an outlet for a wide array of scholarly projects.
CFP: Critical Theory in Dark Times, abstract due May 1, conference Oct. 10-13, 2019
Critical Theory in Dark Times: The Prospects for Liberation in the Shadow of the Radical Right
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Recent Reviews
Stoltzfus on Pine, 'Life and Times in Nazi Germany'
Lisa Pine, ed. Life and Times in Nazi Germany. New York, NY: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2016. 328 pp. $35.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-4742-1792-7.
Reviewed by Nathan Stoltzfus (Florida State University) Published on H-German (October, 2018) Commissioned by David Harrisville (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Printable Version: http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=50613
Hilton on Waxman, 'Women in the Holocaust: A Feminist History'
Zoë Waxman. Women in the Holocaust: A Feminist History. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. 181 pp. $50.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-960868-3.
Reviewed by Laura J. Hilton (Muskingum University) Published on H-German (October, 2018) Commissioned by Nathan N. Orgill
Meyer on Tompkins, 'Better Active than Radioactive!: Anti-Nuclear Protest in 1970s France and West Germany'
Andrew S. Tompkins. Better Active than Radioactive!: Anti-Nuclear Protest in 1970s France and West Germany. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. XV, 265 S. $100.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-877905-6; $99.99 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-182620-7.
Reviewed by Jan-Henrik Meyer Published on H-German (September, 2018) Commissioned by Jeremy DeWaal
Schramm on Berghoff and Logemann and Römer, 'The Consumer on the Home Front: Second World War Civilian Consumption in Comparative Perspective'
Hartmut Berghoff, Jan L. Logemann, Felix Römer, eds. The Consumer on the Home Front: Second World War Civilian Consumption in Comparative Perspective. London: Oxford University Press, 2017. ix + 371 pp. $120.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-878426-5.
Reviewed by Manuel Schramm (Technische Universität Chemnitz) Published on H-German (August, 2018) Commissioned by Jeremy DeWaal
Aitken on Lennox, 'Remapping Black Germany: New Perspectives on Afro-German History, Politics, and Culture'
Sara Lennox. Remapping Black Germany: New Perspectives on Afro-German History, Politics, and Culture. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2016. 376 pp. $31.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-62534-231-7.
Reviewed by Robbie Aitken (Sheffield Hallam University, Humanities Research Center) Published on H-German (April, 2018) Commissioned by Jeremy DeWaal
Rutherford on Böhler and Gerwarth, 'The Waffen-SS: A European History'
Jochen Böhler, Robert Gerwarth, eds. The Waffen-SS: A European History. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. xviii + 372 pp. Illustrations. $100.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-879055-6.
Reviewed by Jeff Rutherford (Wheeling Jesuit University) Published on H-German (March, 2018) Commissioned by Jeremy DeWaal
Rombeck-Jaschinski on Ashton, 'The Kingdom of Württemberg and the Making of Germany, 1815-1871'
Bodie A. Ashton. The Kingdom of Württemberg and the Making of Germany, 1815-1871. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2017. 240 pp. $114.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-350-00007-0.
Reviewed by Ursula Rombeck-Jaschinski (Universität Stuttgart) Published on H-German (February, 2018) Commissioned by Jeremy DeWaal
Printable Version: http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=50116
Clark on Strote, 'Lions and Lambs: Conflict in Weimar and the Creation of Post-Nazi Germany'
Noah Benezra Strote. Lions and Lambs: Conflict in Weimar and the Creation of Post-Nazi Germany. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2017. xii + 357 pp. $40.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-300-21905-0.
Reviewed by Mark Clark (University of Virginia-Wise) Published on H-German (February, 2018) Commissioned by David Harrisville
Sederberg on Steuwer, '"Ein Drittes Reich, wie ich es auffasse": Politik, Gesellschaft und privates Leben in Tagebüchern 1933-1939'
Janosch Steuwer. "Ein Drittes Reich, wie ich es auffasse": Politik, Gesellschaft und privates Leben in Tagebüchern 1933-1939. Göttingen: Wallstein, 2017. 611 pp. EUR 49.90 (cloth), ISBN 978-3-8353-3003-0.
Reviewed by Kathryn Sederberg (Kalamazoo College) Published on H-German (January, 2018) Commissioned by Jeremy DeWaal
Printable Version: http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=50185
Penny on Swanson, 'Tangible Belonging: Negotiating Germanness in Twentieth-Century Hungary'
John C. Swanson. Tangible Belonging: Negotiating Germanness in Twentieth-Century Hungary. Pitt Russian East European Series. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2017. 464 pp. $34.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8229-6429-2.
Reviewed by H. Glenn Penny (University of Iowa) Published on H-German (January, 2018) Commissioned by David Harrisville